Strategy&Future

As realists, we tend to perceive international politics in terms of rivalry over resources, with a specific focus on hard power – geography, military, economy. Values and ideas are usually dismissed as irrelevant, or as a cheap cover-up for in-fact calculated, realist aspirations. In a debate between realists and their critics, including discussion oriented around Strategy&Future, one thing of enormous importance is overlooked by both sides.

“Poland from sea to sea” (Polska od morza do morza). This slogan is most often associated with the 16th century and the period of the greatest power of the Polish Republic. And although the question of actual Polish rule over the Black Sea coast is quite complicated and not obvious, this direction has long occupied an important place in the history of our country. Jan Kochanowski in his work entitled “Satyr or Wild Husband” (Satyr albo Dziki mąż) wrote: Tymci Polska urosła, a granice swoje Rozciągnęła szeroko między morza dwoje. “This is how Poland grew, and its borders / Stretched wide between two seas.”

This essay is not strictly geopolitical in nature, but the cultural issues raised in it, in the field of comparative studies of civilisation, are naturally related to geopolitics. It also deliberately does not mention important military aspects, which often are competently discussed at Strategy&Future. Its subject is the emerging – perhaps before our eyes – European nationality, which may be one of the factors in the process of transforming the European Union into an independent geopolitical entity. The aim is to analyse the nature and foundations of European identity, also on a comparative basis.

Europe is part of “Western civilisation”, to which, apart from Europe itself, it is customary to include all its (regrettably, usually evolved as a result of rape) “children”: primarily North America, with the United States as a global power, and Latin America, with Brazil growing in importance in the global puzzle, as well as the area of ​​Australia and Oceania.

„ [..] And the Pole must stay on this land, so that Polish tears and Polish blood will not be wasted, because this land is poured with Polish blood to defend it…”

On the necessity to include climate considerations in long-term security and strategy planning